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Friday 22 August 2014

British 6th rate HMS Slaney visited Willemstad, Curacao according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated Saturday 12 April 1828

An item reported the arrival at Willemstad, Curacao on last Saturday of the British corvette HMS Slanny [=Slaney] captain Campbell coming from Puerto Cabello. Venezuela. On board was the governor of the island Trinidad. She departed on Tuesday afternoon towards St. Martha and Jamaica.(1)

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1. 6th Rate of 460 tons, launched on 9 December 1813 at the shipyard of Brindley, Frindsbury, England, broken up at Bermuda in 1828 and armed with 20 guns.